Nace (b. 1773), laborer and gardener, was one of TJ’s slaves. He was born “Natia” at Elk Hill plantation in Goochland County where Nace’s parents, Frank and Nan, were slaves of TJ’s father-in-law, John Wayles. Both had died by 1775, and Nace was raised by TJ’s slaves Jame Hubbard and his wife Cate, first at Monticello, and by 1795 at Poplar Forest. Nace was at Poplar Forest until TJ’s death (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 8, 17, 24, 30; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1344, 1375; TJ’s Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, Dec. 1811; TJ to Yancey, 6 Mar. 1817; John Hemmings to TJ, 29 Nov. 1821; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 9:1).